** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Oct 29 at 1310, RA has dumped `Saturday Night Country` for continuous news coverage of the QANTAS lockout and grounding of all flights in response to industrial axion by the unions --- we had not heard a word about this before on American media. Inconveniences many, including several Commonwealth prime ministers who have been meeting in Perth and just want to go home. A moment before 1358* cutoff, announcer said we had been *watching* coverage on ABC. I don`t think so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 29, before 1300:
7970, fair at 1256
10300, good at 1259-1300*
12230, fair at 1258
13970, poor at 1256
14700, fair at 1257
15900, fair at 1257
16100, fair at 1257
After 1400:
17570, fair at 1413; meanwhile some signal talking on 17560, which I assume is V. of Tibet via Madagascar, outwitting the ChiCom, by jumping back and forth between the two (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 13640, I tuned in a bit too late to reconfirm R. Tirana on this frequency erroneously before B-11 starts, Oct 29 at 1458, instead hearing CRI English with Chinese lesson, 1500 into bilingual `Beyond Beijing`, and by 1501 heavy CCI from another station in Chinese-only.
CRI English via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN is A-11 scheduled on 13640 at 15-16, but probably just turned on at *1457 with tail of previous hour. Then it`s RFA Mandarin via TINIAN, also on 13640. The CRI broadcast serves to jam that.
Also heard Chinese on 13755 // weaker 13680; Cuba now off. These are listed in Aoki only for CRI in Chinese via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, so not doing jamming duty there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 17840, via Sines, PORTUGAL, good Oct 29 at 1415 with silly ballgame in German, // fair 15330 via Woofferton, UK and not synchronized. Well, we won`t have to bother with this nonsense any longer as this is the last day for *any* German-language SW from DW.
One may find which other stations are still broadcasting in German via http://www.addx.de/Hfpdat/plaene.php
Check the AM/DRM box only to get rid of all the satellite and internet listings, but there is no way to get rid of the DRM and AM/MW, i.e. AM/SW only. The list would get even shorter if one could sort out the gospel huxters. As of Oct 29, still not showing B-11 info. We have previously found this source to be unreliable for other languages, retaining outdated info even tho the current date be autodisplayed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 28 at 1800 I could detect that the weak signal here was not // 13650 as it had been the last few days, i.e. R. Kuwait in Arabic instead of English. At 2005 the 15540 signal had axually improved to peaks of S9+10, with Western rock music, typical of the RK English service. Finally at 2050 English ID, timecheck, fanfare and news headlines --- so the 18-21 English service on 15540 is back! at least for now. But B-11 HFCC prolongs the fixion that this is in Arabic, 150 kW, 310 degrees from Kabd to western Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA [and non]. 11600, are the newbies at R. Libye still doing a French service at 1600v-1800v? I never got much of a signal here, but Oct 29 at 1650 check there is absolutely no carrier audible, while I am getting stuff on 11610, probably RFA Saipan and/or jamming, and 11620, India in Russian via Bengaluru (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 15160, Oct 29 at 1411 talk with QRM (jamming?) from 1 kHz tone peaking 15159 and 15161 with BFO. Only scheduled here is RRI in Arabic via Galbeni at 14-15. Maybe it`s another of those mystery tests, unheard for several weeks now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Oct 29 at 1509, lots of African music, choral and instrumental. It`s Sudan Radio Service, 1500-1657, 250 kW, 114 degrees from Sines, PORTUGAL in last day of service before it is closed down and dismantled.
Thought I`d better listen as SRS may be hard to hear from now on. Past 1650, almost all-music with occasional non-English announcements; one at 1511 was about malaria, sounded non-Arabic. I suppose it is ``Sudanese``, as described in Wikipedia:
``Sudanese Arabic is the most widely spoken language in the country. It is the result of a mixing of Egyptian Arabic and Arabic from the Arabian peninsula with local languages (El Rutana). This has resulted in a variety of Arabic that is unique to Sudan, reflecting the way in which the country has been influenced by both African and Arabian cultures``
Finally at 1637 an English announcement hard to understand but concluding with Sudan Radio Service ID. Why is the EDC devoting all this airtime to music instead of information?? We do enjoy the music.
B-11 HFCC shows that this transmission will continue where it is, merely shifting site to Woofferton UK, 300 kW, 126 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN [and non]. 28943-USB, Oct 29 at 1419, the 10m band is suddenly full of SSB signals up to 29000. It takes a contest to get the band occupied, previously vacant above 28600. I monitor this spot for a while, a YL saying ``SI3A`` fonetically over and over, presumably meaning that is her call hoping some unknown station will answer. QRZ.com lists with her portrait:
SI3A
Liv Ulla (YL) Norrmén
Logevaegen 3
SE-862 41 Njurunda
Sweden
At 1424 also heard SP4YPV, POLAND, and at 1458 EI2II, IRELAND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 13635, Oct 29 still on at 1408, good signal with Turkish music. TRT is supposed to close this frequency before 1300; getting slipshod at season-end? In B-11, not scheduled at all here, instead 15350. The full Turkish-language new sked per HFCC:
01-03 6000
05-07 9700, 9820
07-10 11925
07-13 15480
07-14 15350
14-17 11815
17-22 5980, 6120
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1588 monitoring: Saturday Oct 29 at 1509, can barely recognize my voice on 9955 WRMI, weak signal, remnant pulse jamming, and CCI from presumed YFR Russian via Taiwan. Further WRMI airings are: Sat 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 1130, 1530, 2130, Tue & Wed 1530.
On WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755
On WBCQ: UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 5110v-CUSB
On Hamburger Lokalradio: Tuesday 1030 on 5980 [now on winter time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 29, before 1300:
7970, fair at 1256
10300, good at 1259-1300*
12230, fair at 1258
13970, poor at 1256
14700, fair at 1257
15900, fair at 1257
16100, fair at 1257
After 1400:
17570, fair at 1413; meanwhile some signal talking on 17560, which I assume is V. of Tibet via Madagascar, outwitting the ChiCom, by jumping back and forth between the two (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 13640, I tuned in a bit too late to reconfirm R. Tirana on this frequency erroneously before B-11 starts, Oct 29 at 1458, instead hearing CRI English with Chinese lesson, 1500 into bilingual `Beyond Beijing`, and by 1501 heavy CCI from another station in Chinese-only.
CRI English via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN is A-11 scheduled on 13640 at 15-16, but probably just turned on at *1457 with tail of previous hour. Then it`s RFA Mandarin via TINIAN, also on 13640. The CRI broadcast serves to jam that.
Also heard Chinese on 13755 // weaker 13680; Cuba now off. These are listed in Aoki only for CRI in Chinese via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, so not doing jamming duty there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 17840, via Sines, PORTUGAL, good Oct 29 at 1415 with silly ballgame in German, // fair 15330 via Woofferton, UK and not synchronized. Well, we won`t have to bother with this nonsense any longer as this is the last day for *any* German-language SW from DW.
One may find which other stations are still broadcasting in German via http://www.addx.de/Hfpdat/plaene.php
Check the AM/DRM box only to get rid of all the satellite and internet listings, but there is no way to get rid of the DRM and AM/MW, i.e. AM/SW only. The list would get even shorter if one could sort out the gospel huxters. As of Oct 29, still not showing B-11 info. We have previously found this source to be unreliable for other languages, retaining outdated info even tho the current date be autodisplayed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 28 at 1800 I could detect that the weak signal here was not // 13650 as it had been the last few days, i.e. R. Kuwait in Arabic instead of English. At 2005 the 15540 signal had axually improved to peaks of S9+10, with Western rock music, typical of the RK English service. Finally at 2050 English ID, timecheck, fanfare and news headlines --- so the 18-21 English service on 15540 is back! at least for now. But B-11 HFCC prolongs the fixion that this is in Arabic, 150 kW, 310 degrees from Kabd to western Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA [and non]. 11600, are the newbies at R. Libye still doing a French service at 1600v-1800v? I never got much of a signal here, but Oct 29 at 1650 check there is absolutely no carrier audible, while I am getting stuff on 11610, probably RFA Saipan and/or jamming, and 11620, India in Russian via Bengaluru (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 15160, Oct 29 at 1411 talk with QRM (jamming?) from 1 kHz tone peaking 15159 and 15161 with BFO. Only scheduled here is RRI in Arabic via Galbeni at 14-15. Maybe it`s another of those mystery tests, unheard for several weeks now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Oct 29 at 1509, lots of African music, choral and instrumental. It`s Sudan Radio Service, 1500-1657, 250 kW, 114 degrees from Sines, PORTUGAL in last day of service before it is closed down and dismantled.
Thought I`d better listen as SRS may be hard to hear from now on. Past 1650, almost all-music with occasional non-English announcements; one at 1511 was about malaria, sounded non-Arabic. I suppose it is ``Sudanese``, as described in Wikipedia:
``Sudanese Arabic is the most widely spoken language in the country. It is the result of a mixing of Egyptian Arabic and Arabic from the Arabian peninsula with local languages (El Rutana). This has resulted in a variety of Arabic that is unique to Sudan, reflecting the way in which the country has been influenced by both African and Arabian cultures``
Finally at 1637 an English announcement hard to understand but concluding with Sudan Radio Service ID. Why is the EDC devoting all this airtime to music instead of information?? We do enjoy the music.
B-11 HFCC shows that this transmission will continue where it is, merely shifting site to Woofferton UK, 300 kW, 126 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN [and non]. 28943-USB, Oct 29 at 1419, the 10m band is suddenly full of SSB signals up to 29000. It takes a contest to get the band occupied, previously vacant above 28600. I monitor this spot for a while, a YL saying ``SI3A`` fonetically over and over, presumably meaning that is her call hoping some unknown station will answer. QRZ.com lists with her portrait:
SI3A
Liv Ulla (YL) Norrmén
Logevaegen 3
SE-862 41 Njurunda
Sweden
At 1424 also heard SP4YPV, POLAND, and at 1458 EI2II, IRELAND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 13635, Oct 29 still on at 1408, good signal with Turkish music. TRT is supposed to close this frequency before 1300; getting slipshod at season-end? In B-11, not scheduled at all here, instead 15350. The full Turkish-language new sked per HFCC:
01-03 6000
05-07 9700, 9820
07-10 11925
07-13 15480
07-14 15350
14-17 11815
17-22 5980, 6120
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1588 monitoring: Saturday Oct 29 at 1509, can barely recognize my voice on 9955 WRMI, weak signal, remnant pulse jamming, and CCI from presumed YFR Russian via Taiwan. Further WRMI airings are: Sat 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 1130, 1530, 2130, Tue & Wed 1530.
On WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755
On WBCQ: UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 5110v-CUSB
On Hamburger Lokalradio: Tuesday 1030 on 5980 [now on winter time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)